Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Peña Nieto's teleprompter

This info from Milenio, regading his last informe or State of the state, is just too good to let pass for those of us highly critical of the packaged media product that is Enrique Peña Nieto:
The speech was provided to the governor by three teleprompters visible to half the auditorium, with color difference in the letters, according to which intonation was needed. Even the most heartfelt messages to his wife and daughters were read directly from the screens. 

Peña Nieto's kind-of-informe: Direct response to Beltrones

How interesting. A couple of days ago, Senator Manlio Fabio Beltrones argued - and quite wisely so - that it would be a "danger" if the PRI returned to power in Mexico without  a clear project. It sounded like a stab at Peña Nieto - and at least that is how the outgoing governor saw it.

In yesterday´s speech for PRI and other elites, which was not technically his state of the state address (he handed that in writing to the state congress, Calderón-style), Peña Nieto appeared to directly respond to Beltrones when he said, "Let there be no confusion, Mexico does have a clear project,  is contained in its Constitution."

Merely playing to the gallery, or are tensions increasing Beltrones-Peña Nieto?